Cultural Realities of Being: Abstract ideas within everyday lives (Cultural Dynamics of Social Representation)

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Synopsis
Cultural Realities of Being offers a dialogue between academic activity and everyday lives by providing an interface between several perspectives on human conduct. Very often, academic pursuits are arcane and obscure for ordinary people, this book will attempt to disentangle these dialogues, lifting everyday discourse and providing a forum for advancing discussion and dialogue. Nandita Chaudhary, S. Anandalakshmy and Jaan Valsiner bring together contributors from the field of cultural psychology to consider how people living within social groups, regardless of how liberal, are guided by collective reality and interconnected with life circumstances. The book discusses experiences and events in the lives of people of Indian cultures covering topics including family, food, pilgrimages, social dynamics and truth, in order to expand the material on human phenomena under the broad frame of cultural psychology. The book builds upon rich cultural traditions present in India, and precisely because of this focus, the book has much larger implications and relevance to the field and aims to orient the academic reader from around the world to viewing India and Indian society as a valuable area for research. Divided into three sections, the book covers:• Social presentation in culture• Representing relations• Children and youth in cultureThis book includes commentaries from expert academics from outside of India, providing a bridge between academic reality and cultural discourse and throwing fresh light on the everyday events presented in the text. Cultural Realities of Being will be essential reading for those studying Cross Cultural Psychology as well as those interested in social representation and identity.
Copyright:
2014

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
212 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781134743568
Related ISBNs:
9781138636866, 9780415600637, 9781315880242
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Nandita Chaudhary, S. Anandalakshmy and Jaan Valsiner
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Psychology, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Nandita Chaudhary
Edited by:
S. Anandalakshmy
Edited by:
Jaan Valsiner

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